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Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2012 22:19:06 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	joern@...fs.org, prasadjoshi.linux@...il.com
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, logfs@...fs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: fix possible memory leak in logfs_mtd_can_write_buf()

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

buf has been allocated in this function and should be
freed before leaving from the error handling case.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c b/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
index 9c50144..427bb73 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ static int logfs_mtd_can_write_buf(struct super_block *sb, u64 ofs)
 		goto out;
 	if (memchr_inv(buf, 0xff, super->s_writesize))
 		err = -EIO;
-	kfree(buf);
 out:
+	kfree(buf);
 	return err;
 }
 


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